Jackson Koivun on Presidents Cup speculation: Good golf takes care of everything
Jackson Koivun talks to the media ahead of the Wyndham Championship about moving to Florida and what it means to hear his name mentioned in the conversation for the 2026 Presidents Cup roster.
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I believe this place has one of the best greens on the PGA Tour.
It's, it's refreshing to get out onto some Bermuda after some past weeks on bent.
Not that bent isn't good, just I prefer Bermuda a little more, and, feel like out here I can make a lot of putts.
Recent victory at the 3M Open just a few weeks ago.
I imagine it comes with a lot of different challenges, following up after that, a lot of changes in your life.
How have you been handling that and managing that, and what sort of differences have there been?
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's been a little different after 3M, but, just trying to keep my head down and focused on, the end goal of hopefully making it, it into the FedEx Cup playoffs.
And, still got a little bit of work to do, and just trying to focus on my golf.
All right.
We'll take some questions.
If you have some, just raise your hand and we'll get you a microphone.
And who wants to jump in first?
Yes, sir.
Hey, Jackson.
You've, you've in the past described your putting as your superpower and, c- of course, this week the greens are some of the most difficult on the PGA Tour.
What kind of advantage do you feel like your putting skill gives you on a course like this, as opposed to maybe some of the more benign, maybe bent grass courses we've went to at 3M, John Deere, et cetera?
Yeah.
It's, Being able to putt well here is definitely, definitely good.
I feel like if you hit a good putt, it goes in, but at the end of the day scores will be low for everyone.
So, definitely using putting this week as a power for momentum, I think will be, will be helpful.
And the next.
Left, right.
So you grinded on the practice putting green pretty hard yesterday.
W- what, and I guess, are you working on specifically?
Yeah, I just didn't make a lot in Detroit.
I felt like I hit the ball really well, drove it really well, just, never really got many putts to go, and just wanted to get out here, get on some good greens and see, see some putts go in and get some confidence back going in, going into Thursday.
With all the newness that you're experiencing, how nice is it to come to a golf course that you don't just have experience on, but you have past success on as well?
It's great.
Got great memories here from junior golf and from last year and, just excited to, to get out here and compete against some really good players.
We'll go Ron and then Helen.
Given the attention you've drawn here in the last month or so, are you pretty good at keeping that away, boxing yourself out of it?
Or have you allowed yourself I mean, Brandt Snedeker's in here talking about you yesterday, Presidents Cup, all that swirl.
Do you just shove that away, or do you al- allow yourself to listen to any of it?
Yeah, I mean, I definitely hear it and, you know, I appreciate all the kind words people have to say about me, and I know there's a lot of flutter about, about certain teams and things I might be able to, to accomplish.
But at the end of the day, I like to tell myself good golf takes care of everything.
So if I can just kind of tune that out and just go enjoy competing out here on the PGA Tour, I should be able to, accomplish, accomplish some of my goals.
Helen.
A month ago, say, I mean, obviously you have a lot of goals and everything, but realistically, what do you think you might have been looking forward to in the next four weeks, a month ago, before you won?
The next four weeks?
Um- I mean, before the pl- you know, when did the playoffs I mean, o- obviously the win, the, you know, brought the playoffs into the picture.
But if you didn't have this opportunity this week, what do you think you would've been doing next week?
Probably still getting acquainted to spending some time down in Florida.
I just moved down there, so, but you know, I, I had full faith that I was gonna be able to give myself a shot at the playoffs, and that was never out of the, out of the picture in my mind.
So, obviously the win at 3M really boosted that, but, I can, still felt like I could do, go out there and play some good golf and give myself a chance.
All right.
John.
Yeah.
You've probably been asked this before, but what's the best thing about winning on the PGA Tour?
You know, we all, growing up, it's just a lifelong dream to become a PGA Tour winner and, just that feeling when the final putt drops and they hand you the trophy, it's, it's quite special 'cause, you know, you work so hard for that moment, and, it's just a indescribable feeling.
Mike, go again.
Not looking for your address obviously, but wh- where in, in South Florida did you, did you move to?
Are you gonna have roommates?
Where are you gonna play out of?
Just that sort of thing.
Yeah, I, I moved down to Palm Beach Gardens, kind of the Jupiter area.
I'm at Bear's Club and Panther National.
So, only spent about two weeks down there and, still getting acquainted down there.
But, it's been, it's been really fun and been, been helpful for my golf game.
Was that always the plan this time of year?
Were you looking at like the end of the year?
Or did it just sort of- Yeah, I, I, it was always the plan to go down to Florida.
I moved right before the US Open.
So I've definitely spent some time down there.
But, yeah, it was, it was always the plan.
